Samuel SanGregory (Chair)
Dr. SanGregory assumed the role as chairman of the Elmer W. Engstrom Department of Engineering and Computer Science in 2006. He joined Cedarville University in 1993 and is currently an associate professor of electrical engineering. He received his B.S.E. (1988) from Wright State University and his M.S.Cp.E. (1992) and Ph.D. (1999) from the Air Force Institute of Technology. His areas of expertise include VLSI design, VHDL modeling of digital systems, solid-state electronics, circuits, and computer architectures. He plays an active role in the IEEE Dayton section and has served on the organizing committee of the IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems. He also works closely with several of the Cedarville University competition teams. He and his wife, Lisa, have three daughters. In his spare time, he enjoys gardening and hunting.
Robert Chasnov (Assistant to the Chair)
Dr. Chasnov serves as professor of engineering and assistant to the chair. He earned his B.S. in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; his M.S. in physics and Ph.D. in materials engineering are from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He is a registered Professional Engineer. Dr. Chasnov has served as a consultant for an Air Force project to replace Ni-Cd batteries with Ni-MH on the F-16. His research interests include materials testing and characterization, failure analysis, hydrogen-metal alloys, and fuel cells. Dr. Chasnov is a Messianic Jew. His wife, Sue, has a B.S. degree in biomedical engineering; they have three daughters and one son.
Stanley Baczek
Dr. Baczek has served as the dean of the School of Engineering, Nursing, and Science since July 1, 2003. He is also professor of polymer science and engineering. Prior to this position, Dr. Baczek served as associate professor of plastics engineering technology, department chair, and director of the Plastics Manufacturing Center at various times while at Pennsylvania College of Technology. In the 20 years prior to that, that, Dr. Baczek held various positions in industry. He and his wife of 36 years, Sandy, have been blessed with three children and three grandsons. They are members of Southgate Baptist Church in Springfield. His hobbies include reading, golf, photography, and hunting.
Gerald Brown
Dr. Gerald Brown serves as assistant professor of electrical engineering. He earned his B.Eng. and Management, M.Eng., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (1989) at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Dr. Brown worked on AC drive systems in Germany for four years and then as a senior systems engineer with Siemens Energy & Automation in Atlanta, Georgia. During that time he was responsible for the design and testing of an AC drive system for 400-ton haul trucks. An IEEE member, Dr. Brown has written and presented numerous papers and journal articles on mining applications of AC drives and holds a patent for operating a high voltage AC drive on a low voltage trolley line. His research interests include an electromagnetic theory for the atom. He has traveled extensively around the world on business and has been on ministry trips in Asia and Russia and is fluent in German. A member of the Creation Research Society, he has developed and taught high school courses on Biblical Creation and Electricity & Magnetism. He enjoys swimming, soccer, camping, and working around the house. He and his wife, Deb, have five children. They moved to Cedarville in 2004 and are active with children in school at home and in the public system.
Peter Burban
Dr. Burban serves as associate professor of mechanical engineering. He earned his B.S.Ch.E. at the University of Illinois and his Ph.D. at the University of Delaware. Evangelism has a special place in Peter's heart. He has been able to share the Gospel with Ukrainians in their native language, and he was pleased to work with the Jesus film outreach. Peter also has taught Bible to children and has led a parenting class on how to raise kids. He and his wife, Cynthia, homeschool their children, Kristina and Stefanie. He has been at Cedarville since 2001.
Timothy Dewhurst
Dr. Dewhurst serves as professor of mechanical engineering. He earned his B.S.M.E., M.Eng.M., and Ph.D. from Cornell University. Dr. Dewhurst came to Cedarville in 1996 after holding faculty positions at the University of Maine and Maine Maritime Academy. He has worked in the gas turbine industry and has been a consultant to Maine industries in the areas of mechanical design, heat transfer analysis, and quality control.
Zhengwei Fang
Dr. Fang earned her B.S.E.E. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, her M.S.E.T. from Pittsburgh State University, and her Ph.D. from the University of Akron. Dr. Fang serves as assistant professor of computer engineering. Before coming to the states, she taught in the Technology Institute of China for four years. Her areas of interest include digital filter implementation, digital control, parallel processing, and computer architecture. Dr. Fang serves as the faculty advisor for the Cedarville section of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE).
David Gallagher
Dr. Gallagher serves as professor of computer science and has been at Cedarville since August 2000. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from the United States Air Force Academy (1978) and his M.S. in electrical engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology (1987). Dr. Gallagher received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois (1995), specializing in computer architecture. His dissertation was in the area of compiler optimizations. Dr. Gallagher's research interests include compilers, VLSI design, reconfigurable computing, and superscalar architectures. He serves as a deacon in his local church.
Harwood Hegna
Dr. Hegna serves as professor of mechanical engineering. He earned his B.S. (1969) and M.S. (1971) in aero engineering and his M.S. in mechanical engineering (1973) from the University of Minnesota. He earned his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering (1981) from the Air Force Institute of Technology. Dr. Hegna came to Cedarville in 1992 after a full career in the United States Air Force. He held faculty positions at the United States Air Force Academy and the Air Force Institute of Technology. He has had assignments in both Air Force Systems and Logistics Commands, including the Flight Dynamics Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. His areas of expertise include fluid mechanics, heat transfer, numerical methods, and applied mathematics. Dr. Hegna also enjoys involvement in his church's adult choir and Vacation Bible School program. He and his wife, Helen, have been married for more than 27 years and have three children. He loves traveling and seeing God's marvelous created world with his family. Recently they hiked across the Grand Canyon and white water rafted down the Arkansas River in Colorado.
Jay Kinsinger
Mr. Kinsinger serves as assistant professor of mechanical engineering. He earned two B.S. degrees from the University of Dayton in mechanical and manufacturing engineering technologies and a M.S. degree in biomedical engineering from Wright State University. Mr. Kinsinger's areas of expertise include computer aideddesign/computer aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) and manufacturing processes and materials. Before coming to Cedarville, Mr. Kinsinger was a Research Engineer for the Ohio Willow Wood Company for six years; he was responsible for the design and manufacturing of lower extremity prosthetic components. During his tenure at Ohio Willow Wood, he was awarded two patents and honored as Innovator of the Year. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA), and Ohio Rehabilitation Technology Association (ORTA). He and his wife, Andrea, have three daughters and are senior high youth leaders at their church. His hobbies include bicycle touring, woodworking, and wilderness travel.
Clinton Kohl
Dr. Kohl serves as professor of computer engineering. He earned his B.S.E.E. from South Dakota State University, his M.S.E.E. from University of North Dakota, and his Ph.D. in computer engineering from Iowa State University. Dr. Kohl came to Cedarville in 1994. His graduate research involved the development of a new high density non-volatile memory technology. His areas of interest include digital electronics, computer architecture, programmable logic devices, and embedded systems. He has enjoyed advising numerous autonomous robotic competition teams.
Timothy Norman
Dr. Norman serves as professor of mechanical engineering. He earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. at Purdue University, Indiana, in aeronautical and astronomical engineering. Prior to coming to Cedarville, he worked as a professor in the department of mechancal and aerospace engineering at West Virginia University. He also served as director of the Musculoskeletal Research Center in the orthopedics department, working in the field of biomedical engineering including areas of tissue mechanics, implant design, biomaterials, and tissue engineering. In the past he also worked for McDonnell Aircraft Co. in aircraft structural analysis. Dr. Norman enjoys worship through music and plays his guitar with the praise band at his church. He and his wife, Robin, have three daughters - Bethany, Grace and Danielle. He came to Cedarville in the fall of 2003.
Keith Shomper
Dr. Shomper serves as an associate professor of computer science and has been at Cedarville since August 2003. He received his B.A. in mathematics from the University of Northern Colorado (1983) and his M.S. in computer science from the Air Force Institute of Technology (1984). Dr. Shomper received his Ph.D. in computer science from The Ohio State University (1993), specializing in computer graphics with minors in software engineering and distributed computing. His dissertation was in the area of visual debugging of computer programs. Dr. Shomper's research interests include computer graphics, distributed simulation, and virtual reality. Dr Shomper has served in several ministries over 20+ years in local churches, including deacon, youth leader, choir member, treasurer, Sunday school teacher, Awana soul winner, and bus worker.
Daniel Shortt
Dr. Shortt serves as associate professor of electrical engineering. He received his B.S.E.E. (1974), M.S.E.E. (1979), and Ph.D. (1982) from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Before coming to Cedarville, Dr. Shortt was a chief scientist and an electronics engineer for the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. He has been honored with the Navy Award of Merit for Group Achievement (1995), the Technology Transfer Award (1994), and the Naval Research Laboratory Review Award (1994).
Thomas Thompson
Dr. Thompson serves as associate professor of mechanical engineering and has been at Cedarville since 1995. He earned his B.S.M.E. and M.S.M.E. from the University of Nebraska, and his Ph.D. from Iowa State University. He is a Registered Professional Engineer. Dr. Thompson has worked on the Space Integrated Controls Experiment project in New Mexico and as Plant Engineer with The Lincoln Plating Company. His areas of interest include automatic controls, vibration and damping in large structures, instrumentation, and kinematics. He has also authored a web-based resource for kinematics design.
Timothy Tuinstra
Tim Tuinstra serves as assistant professor of electrical engineering is a 1996 B.S.E.E. graduate of Cedarville University and was awarded his M.S.E.E. from the University of Dayton in 1998. He is currently completing his Ph.D. at the University of Dayton. His dissertation research is focusing on the automatic characterization of lung cancer from computed tomography (CT) imagery. Mr. Tuinstra spent four years as a senior engineer at General Dynamics and has conducted graduate research at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Electro-Optical Sensors Lab. His areas of interest and experience include medical imaging, signal processing, and digital communications. He is a member of the IEEE Engineering in Biology and Medicine Society.
Lawrence Zavodney
Dr. Zavodney serves as professor of mechanical engineering. He earned his B.S.M.E. and M.S.M.E. from the University of Akron and his Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is a Registered Professional Engineer. Dr. Zavodney was a member of The Ohio State University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and Yarmouk University engineering faculty before coming to Cedarville in 1992. He is an internationally known expert in non-linear vibrations. He has worked in the tire, nuclear power, and fossil fuel industries. Dr. Zavodney's areas of expertise include design, engineering mechanics, and advanced mathematics.